Leviticus 15:33:1Lev.15.33.W1TAB
וְהַדָּוָה֙
vehhaddava
“and the unwell woman”
- Transliteration
- veh-had-da-VA
- Extended
- veh-had-da-VAA
- IPA
- /wə.had.daˈvaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and the unwell woman
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Dalet | d as in door | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Word in context
- word
veh-had-da-VA
- clause
veh-had-da-VA beh-nid-da-TAH veh-haz-ZAV et-zoh-VO lah-zah-KHAR veh-lah-neh-ke-VA
- sentence
veh-had-da-VA beh-nid-da-TAH veh-haz-ZAV et-zoh-VO lah-zah-KHAR veh-lah-neh-ke-VA oo-le-ISH a-SHER yish-KAV im-teh-MEH-AA
Exegesis
It begins with vehadavah {וְהַדָּוָה֙ | wə-had-dāwāh} ‘the one who has a flow’, followed by the prepositional phrase benidatah {בְּנִדָּתָהּ | bə-nid-dā-tāh} ‘in her menstrual impurity’, marking a condition of ritual separation.
Root and etymology
d-w-hDalet, Vav, Heh
“flow”
In context — Leviticus 15:33
And the woman with a flow in her menstrual impurity , and the person with a discharge —his discharge for the male and for the female—and the man who lies with a woman who is unclean.
About this coordinate
Leviticus 15:33:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Leviticus 15:33, so the Hebrew word וְהַדָּוָה֙ (vehhaddava) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Lev.15.33.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.15.33.W1.S1) and character.